top of page
This site was designed with the
.com
website builder. Create your website today.Start Now

Cold War Review (Hist 12)

Yalta Conference

San Francisco Conference

Potsdam Conference

Allied Control Council

The 5 D's (define once for all 5 Ds)

  • Demilitarization

  • Denazificatioin

  • Deindustrialization

  • Decentralization

  • Democratization

Bizonia & Trizonia

The Long Telegram and Novikov Telegram

Iron Curtain

Truman Doctrine

  • Pay for Peace

  • European Recovery Plan (Marshall Plan)

Cominform (Communist Information Bureau)

Comecon (Council of Mutual Economic Assistance)

Chuck Yeager

Berlin Blockade & Airlift

Brussels Treaty, 1948 

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Julius and Ethyl Rosenburg

Robert Oppenheimer

Joseph McCarthy

  • Un-American Activities Committee

Strategic Air Command

Containment

Korean War

  • General Assembly

  • Security Council

  • Veto

  • Yakov Malik

  • Pusan

  • Inchon

  • Seoul

  • General Macarthur

  • Chinese volunteers 

  • Panmunjom

European Coal & Steel Community (ECSC) 

Hydrogen Bomb

Military Industrial Complex

Warsaw Pact

Suez Crisis

  • Prime Minister Gamal Adbel Nasser 

  • General Burns

  • Aswan Dam

  • Lester Bowles Pearson

Hungarian Revolution

  • Imre Nagy

Nikita Khrushchev

De-Stalinization

Eisenhower Doctrine

  • Central Treaty Organization CENTO or METO

  • South East Asian Treaty Organization (SEATO)

Space Race

  • Sputnik, 1957

  • Laika

  • Yuri Gargarin

  • Mercury Astronauts

  • Alan Shephards

  • Valentina Tereshkova

Treaty of Rome

European Economic Community (EEC)

U2 Incident

  • Francis Gary Powers & Rudolf Abel

Berlin Wall

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 

  • Fidel Castro

  • J.F. Kennedy

  • Bay of Pigs

  • Hotline

  • Jupiter Bases

  • Brinkmanship

  • Detente

Lyndon B Johnson

Prague Spring 

  • Alexander Dubcek

Brezhnev Doctrine

Willy Brandt & Ostpolitik

1972 Summit Series

Helsinki Accords

Andropov & Chernyko

Lech Walesa & Solidarity

SALT I, SALT II, START

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) or Star Wars 

Ronald Reagan

Mikhail Gorbachev

  • Glasnost

  • Perestroika

Intermediate Range Nuclear Force Treaty (INF)

Boris Yeltsen

Vladimir Putin

Cult of Personality

Concepts to Understand

  1. Where is the new frontier?

  2. What do the 5 D's refer to? What D's did Russia have problems with? U.S.?

  3. Why did relations between the two superpowers sour following soon after Yalta?

  4. How did the geopolitical environment change after the Soviets detonated their first atomic bomb?

  5. What effect did possible nuclear war have on American society?

  6. Understand the U.N.'s role in the Korean war.

  7. Understand MacArthur's conflict with President Truman's. Why does Truman not want to move beyond the borders of North Korea?

bottom of page